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Understanding 9/11Number-crunching : taming unruly computational problems from mathematical physics to science fiction
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xxvi, 376 p. : 24 cm
"A collection of challenging problems in mathematical physics that roar like lions when attacked analytically, but which purr like kittens when confronted by a high-speed electronic computer and its powerful scientific software (plus some speculations for the future from science fiction)"
Includes bibliographical references and index
Feynman meets Fermat -- Just for fun : two quick number-crunching problems -- Computers and mathematical physics -- The astonishing problem of the hanging masses -- The three-body problem and computers -- Electrical circuit analysis and computers -- The leapfrog problem -- Science fiction : when computers become like us -- A cautionary epilogue
"A collection of challenging problems in mathematical physics that roar like lions when attacked analytically, but which purr like kittens when confronted by a high-speed electronic computer and its powerful scientific software (plus some speculations for the future from science fiction)"
Includes bibliographical references and index
Feynman meets Fermat -- Just for fun : two quick number-crunching problems -- Computers and mathematical physics -- The astonishing problem of the hanging masses -- The three-body problem and computers -- Electrical circuit analysis and computers -- The leapfrog problem -- Science fiction : when computers become like us -- A cautionary epilogue
Notes
Cut-off text on some pages due to tight binding
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